Sketches with a Twist April

I'm really enjoying the monthly fun at Sketches with a Twist. April's sketch is below, and the twist was to use some mesh (any old mesh hanging around the house).

I have to admit, first I tried misting through the mest, but hated the color combo with the photos I wanted to use, so I ripped that apart and opted to use the mesh itself. It is from an onion bag, in case you don't recognize it.

I inked my chipboard letters to give them the brown color with Walnut Stain distress ink, and the orange alphas are DIY thickers with embossing powder. If you are going to emboss DIY thickers, be ready for the fact that they shrink a bit. I think I lost about 1/4 of the size, and they started to curl as well, so you just have to be light and easy with the heat gun on them.

I used Tattered Angels and acrylic paint on the butterfly, and added some twine. I also added the third photo to this sketch in an oval. The papers are from MME paisley stack.

Christa's April Challenge and Let's Scrap come together

Christa challenged us to use tickets this month at Two Scrapbook Friends. I paired this with the Let's Scrap sketch for this week shown below. I also added the Scraptasic Club April Challenge 1, which was to make a flower using at least 3 layers.

And here is what I came up with:

Supplies are all pretty random. The flower is made with 5 layers, 3 of organza in orange and 2 of tulle, plus the brad makes a 6th layer. I cut the scalloped border on my Silhouette. The blue paper is Recollections, and the background is sprayed with Tattered Angels (blue) and Dylusions (orange) mists.

The cute little hula girl is a digi from Scrapbook Stamp Society, as yet unreleased.

Two Scrapbook Friends National Scrapbook Day Online Crop - Jayne's challenge

Two Scrapbook Friends is hosting an online crop for National Scrapbook Day which started last Friday. Jayne's challenge was to use REAL stitching (none of that sew stamper stuff), either machine or hand, on a layout.

I decided to couple it with a sketch from Scrapping Everyday Miracles, where you also had to use distressing or sanding.

I also decided to add the Scraptastic challenge number 3, to use your stash and stitch.

This is what I made:

Are you amazed I followed the sketch so closely? I sure am!!

I definitely stitched, using some old embroidery floss from making friendship bracelets. I also have the metal letters below from my stash... it took me a while to figure out a title I could make with the letters I have left (can't believe I had two s left!). Finally the green and yellow cardstock are stash items. I know, you're asking... where is the yellow cardstock? Well, its the scalloped border and I covered it with Walnut stain distress ink, Tattered Angels leather glimmermist and some green glimmer glam. I also distressed the green cardstock, the photos and the journalling card (Bo Bunny).

Isn't it all cute? In case you're wondering, the background paper is Momenta PA-1108 Endless summer paper pack.

SYAO 10 and SYAO 11 - two very different examples of my talent lol

I'm still in it to win it over at Paper Secrets, and here is what I created for weeks 10 and 11.

SYAO10



doily
twine
stick pin(s)
3+ flowers
chip-board
washi tape
3+ patterned papers
bling

TECHNIQUES
punches (border/corner)
acyrlic paint (stamped-brushed-stencil...your choice of application)
distressing
I've actually already used this sketch once, which threw me off a bit...  But I recovered at the last minute and got back in the game. I knew I didn't want both pages to look like they were from the same sketch, so I planned to make some modifications, maybe turn it, and then this happened (lol!)

See it? My itty bitty bit of bling on the metal tag :)

I swear this bow looked better IRL... grr

I know. Its totally the same sketch. But it will be far enough apart in the album that no one will notice (I hope!)



All the papers are Momenta from the Seasons and Occasions pack (PA-1992), the black and white cardstock pack (PA-2390), and a photo mat pack. Stick pins are made by me for the one in the middle, and Maya Road for the green leafies. The metal tag is Making Memories and the chipboard is Cosmo Cricket. The circle tags are Colorbok. I used a Tim Holtz mask and Jenni Bowlin Weathered Wood paint dauber to do the edges and the clock.

So how did I do on the challenge? I used twine, stick pins, chipboard, and bling, and used acrytic paint as my technique.

SYAO11


PRODUCTS
2 or more tags
twine
stick pin(s)
3+ flowers
chip-board
washi tape
3+ patterned papers
metal/foil type embellie(s)


TECHNIQUES
punches (border/corner)
acyrlic paint (stamped-brushed-stencil...your choice of application)
distressing
embossing (dry or heat)
What a crazy sketch! I mean, really... what was I gonna do with that! Surprisingly it turned out FABULOUS...

I love using hand writing!!

Love my new embossing folders matched with Distress ink.. how cool do those two pieces look?

Aren't you surprised? I know, the sketch is barely recognizable (which is sort of how I wanted it) and I cheated all over the place (of course).. and as I'm typing this I just realized that waves sticker at the bottom right of the photo moved itself and is upsidedown!! How did that happen?? Grr... Stupid non-sticky stickers. Anyways it should be right side up and nice and linearly placed like the sun sticker on the opposite corner!

My supplies? Well... this is a Momenta layout for sure: the solids in green and orange that were embossed are from PA-1033 the vibrant cardstock pack. The two blue strips plus the yellowy orangey background page are from the Travel pyramid pack PA-2389,  and finally the circly paper is from the Endless Summer collection PA-1108.  Also Momenta is the "Welcome to Paradise" sticker and the stripey tag from ST-4952 the vacation multi pack of stickers.

Then I added twine from the Twinery, random stickers and die cuts, a ship's wheel from the bead section, some ric rak (I love that stuff) and distress inks in Evergreen, Peeled Paint and Spiced Marmalade. The embossing folders are both Tim Holtz (in case y'all didn't already know!) Oh and also an eyelet from a random bag of eyelets I found in my scrap room, and the big orange eyelet type thing from We R MK.

So I used: 2 tags, twine, patterned papers, metals and embossing.

Hope you enjoy and are inspired to EMBOSS!

Momenta and 2SF March Sketches by Joann and Sharlene

This is Sharlene's sketch. Its a card sketch but I used it for a layout instead.

This is what I came up with:

The circle is from Bo Bunny, frogs from Sticko and pretty much the rest of the paper and the alphas are Momenta. The patterned papers are Chloe's Garden from PA-2384, and the alphas are from ST-3194.

This is Joanne's sketch:

And here is what I created:

This one is a big mish-mash including Momenta, Recollections, Bazzill. The bling and puffy stickers are all Momenta from three different packages: ST-3087, ST-3052, ST-3503.

CYAO10 - Lil Shirley Holmes

This week I had fun with CYAO10 at Paper Secrets.




Use 3 of the following products/techniques:
use twine
clouds
markers
spring colors
mist
card stock on the front of your card 

I didn't want to use a tree and clothesline, so I decided to use this cute Shirley Holmes image from Scrapbook Stamp Society and a twine-based "trail" for her to follow.

 

From the list, I used, clouds, markers, twine, mist (in the dirt as texture) and cardstock on the front of the card. I might even have used spring colors, making it my first 6/6 card!

The other challenges I am also entering this one in are:
Corrosive Challenge #147 - hit the bottle (use something from a bottle - glimmermist and distress stain)
Pile it On Challenge #16 - Pop it up - Shirley Holmes is popped up :)
Alphabet Challenge blog - E is for Embroidery (or stitching!)
Fairy Fun Fridays - Anything goes
Joyful Stamper - Anything goes
Delightful Challenges - stitching
Creative Belli Blog Challenge #141 - children

CYAO9 - Thanks!

Paper Secrets is keeping me busy with the CYAO and SYAO competitions!


CYAO9



Use 3 of the following products/techniques:
A Miminum of 3 layers and 3 embellishments
A ruffle (can be paper cut, a border, just something that looks like a ruffel)
colored pencils
only black ink
a banner
be inspired by a project in the paper secrets gallery and make sure to share what inspired you.

I wanted to use the bunny, but just didn't feel like it when I got to work, so this is what I came up with.

I used a ruffle from Webster's, only black ink to stamp the squares, a banner by Momenta, and background paper also by Momenta